ok, so i've done everything the tutorial says. I have retail version of Black ops, BLES03031 i rip the game to internal hdd, alter the PARAM.SFO in the GAMEZ folder to 3.4000 then update. Once ive updated i go into the game\bles03031\ps3_game\usrdata folder etc and copy the eboot from files into here, then alter the PARAM.SFO in the previous file.

Then i also go and hex edit the metadata file from 3.5 to 3.4 but i still get a black screen? Do i still need to have the disk to play the game? Or does it boot without the disk? Also because im using FW version 3.41, should i not edit the metadata file to 3.41?

Please help me, i'm tearing my hair out. P.s - thanks for the help up to now, appreciate!

didn't work for me... i deleted the /dev_hdd0/game/BLES01031 folder on my ps3, extracted the whole content of your uploaded rar and fxped it to /dev_hdd0/game/LAUN12345/GAMES/BLES01031 and chose overwrite old files, but it still wants 3.50 as fw..

For those with 3d tv's. If you launch the game it will automatically set itself to 3d. If you go into the menu and try to revert back to 2d game will crash. Pretty cool you can get 3d to work without 3.50 but I guess the game thinks your on 3.50.

Fix if you want to revert back to 2d without crashing.

1. Delete your saved data (Not your game data)
2. Load game on non 3d tv (I had to do a video reset cause I would get no video after launching Black Ops, but could see HD working)
3. Save the game
4. Relaunch game with your 3d tv and you will notice 3d will be off